Though I'm not sure I'd say "human waffle." I mean, the bulldozer didn't
have waffle-shaped treads, right?--I'd say something flatter than that, like
a pressed sandwich of the type Martha Stewart places a brick on top of.
And, Sharose--we are fulfilling our respective responsibilities in life. We
get up, we go to work, we make the changes we need to make. We're all
growing and doing things, tackling our challenges. And if we want to unwind
with a little macabre humor--it's no one's business but our own.
You don't always have to take the bait, you know.
--J
> No one and I mean *NO ONE* on Gods Green Earth can rant like our Mike.
> Dude, you have made my morning. I can now face the drones at work...
>
>
> Ozzy
>
>
>
>
> --- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, "Mikal" <mikalm_at_i...>
> wrote:
>
>
>> Sharose (and everyone else),
>
>
>>
>
>
>> I have zero regard for this waste of space and oxygen, who has now
> made
>
>
>> herself the woman to beat in the 2003 Darwin Awards.
>
>
>>
>
>
>> Why?
>
>
>>
>
>
>> * Rachel Corrie was not some Palestinian toddler who wandered into
> the path
>
>
>> of an earthmover and got mowed down. She was an allegedly educated
> adult
>
>
>> who traveled halfway across the world, into a war zone, with the
> sole intent
>
>
>> of inflaming an already insane and deadly situation. The group she
> worked
>
>
>> there with has a stated goal of "armed liberation" of the
> Palestinian
>
>
>> region. Maybe I'm a little slow, but "armed liberation" seems to
> imply
>
>
>> shooting, war, violence, that sort of thing. Is it any wonder she
> met a
>
>
>> violent end under their tutelage?
>
>
>>
>
>
>> * She tried to agitate a mob of Palestinians against the U.S. and
> Israel by
>
>
>> burning an improvised American Flag in their midst. Don't believe
> me?
>
>
>> Check out these two pics, and then wonder why you haven't seen them
> in the
>
>
>> mainstream media:
>
>
>>
>
>
>> http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Pictures/rachel-corrie-flagburner.jpg
>
>
>>
>
>
>> http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Pictures/rachel-corrie-flag-02.jpg
>
>
>>
>
>
>> Does this look like the face of a loving, tolerant, nurturing
> person? Or
>
>
>> does it look like someone with serious anger problems, who chose
> political
>
>
>> violence rather than therapy as a way to deal with personal demons?
>
>
>>
>
>
>> * The bulldozer was a huge, armored ('dozer drivers get sniped at
> regularly
>
>
>> in these areas) vehicle with virtually zero visibility except at
>
>
>> straight-ahead 12-o'clock. I've know people who've worked on
> construction
>
>
>> sites and road crews, and they've all said to NEVER get near a
> mobile
>
>
>> earthmover for this reason...and they were talking about
> garden-variety ones
>
>
>> half the size of this behemoth.
>
>
>>
>
>
>> * As I said earlier, she was in a war zone -- the bulldozing was an
> IDF
>
>
>> operation, and was accompanied by a troop detail. Anyone not a
> trained,
>
>
>> armed combatant who enters such an area is taking an unimaginably
> stupid
>
>
>> risk with their life, and should be prepared to die in an ugly
> manner.
>
>
>>
>
>
>> * According to more than one eyewitness, she wasn't even standing in
> front
>
>
>> of the 'dozer. Those pics of her standing were taken earlier in the
> day, at
>
>
>> different sites (note that the shadows, light, and even the machine
> seem to
>
>
>> be different). The witnesses said that in but sitting on a mound of
> earth
>
>
>> well out of the sight range of the driver. It is quite possible
> that she
>
>
>> was killed not by being run over, but by the collapse of the earth
> mound as
>
>
>> the 'dozer caved it in from the side.
>
>
>>
>
>
>> * Whatever the scenario or exact cause of death, did she really
> think she
>
>
>> could get away with playing chicken with a moving 40-ton vehicle
> whose
>
>
>> driver couldn't see her clearly? Maybe my folks were a bit strict,
> but from
>
>
>> an early age I was taught not to run in front of cars for this
> reason. I
>
>
>> guess all that edumacation at Evergreen State University, and all
> those
>
>
>> activist circle-jerks, convinced her that the laws of physics and
> common
>
>
>> sense didn't apply to such an enlightened and progressive womyn as
> herself.
>
>
>>
>
>
>> * If she was so much against war and killing, then why did she waste
> her
>
>
>> time protecting ABANDONED BUILDINGS? Why didn't she, say, try to
> stop one
>
>
>> of the suicide bombings that claims Israeli lives on a weekly basis?
> The
>
>
>> answer: she was a moral coward who went up against Israel and
> America
>
>
>> because they were CIVILIZED DEMOCRACIES UNDER THE RULE OF LAW, who
> allow
>
>
>> idiots like this huge amounts of latitude to interfere with
> government and
>
>
>> private activities in the name of free speech. The very reason this
> case is
>
>
>> so publicized -- unlike, say, the ones about slave-freeing
> missionaries
>
>
>> being murdered in the Sudan -- is that it's an ANOMALY in Israel.
> Losers
>
>
>> like Corrie are looking for cheap and painless ways of making
> themselves
>
>
>> moral authorities and martyrs, since they can't advance themselves
> through
>
>
>> careers, relationships or other productive means of finding one's
> identity.
>
>
>> A REAL radical humanitarian -- one who was GENUINELY concerned about
> REAL
>
>
>> oppression and murder -- would have gone to Iraq, North Korea, the
> PA, or
>
>
>> any kleptocratic Third World toilet, and fought the epic brutality
> and
>
>
>> bloodlettings in such places. And of course, would have been
> whacked the
>
>
>> second they opened their mouth.
>
>
>>
>
>
>> Rachel Corrie has now joined the Idealistic Idiot Sisterhood,
> alongside Amy
>
>
>> Biehl, Lori Berenson, and Rosebud DeNovo -- disturbed, deluded women
> who
>
>
>> thought that their personal convictions justified their stupid
> politics, and
>
>
>> would protect them from the consequences of their suicidal antics.
> I know,
>
>
>> I know...it's their FEEEEEELINGS that are important. Well, I'm sure
> that
>
>
>> Road-Pizza Rachel had strong FEEEEELINGS. But because those strong
>
>
>> FEEELINGS weren't balanced by personal responsibility or common
> sense, she's
>
>
>> now not FEEEELING anything at all.
>
>
>>
>
>
>> In closing, I would say that my sympathy for some poor Iraqi draftee
> eating
>
>
>> sand and dodging bullets on behalf of a monster like Saddam, is
> about
>
>
>> 100,000 times that of mine for a deranged, self-hating terrorist
> enabler
>
>
>> like Rachel Corrie. The political culture and gene pool is
> healthier in her
>
>
>> absence.
>
>
>>
>
>
>> Mikal, the Heartless Reactionary Warmonger Zionist
>
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